Conflicting clinical implications of therapeutic coma for status epilepticus

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1144-1145

  Sutter, Raoul ^a,b  

^a Clinic for Intensive Care Medicine   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

anesthetic drugs; neurocritical care; outcome; status epilepticus; therapeutic coma

Indexed keywords

HARKOSERIDE; TOPIRAMATE;

DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; EPILEPTIC STATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPEUTIC COMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; FEMALE; MALE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STATUS EPILEPTICUS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84932184948     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000891     Document Type: Editorial

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